Review About The OLD English Literature : "BEOWULF" Review

Hello! This is our first blog and automatically it will be the first post. Well, today we will review about the Old English Literature.

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Old English Literature is also known as Anglo-Saxon Literature. Old English Literature or Anglo-Saxon Literature is a literature written in Old English at the post-Roman period from the middle of the 5th century until 1066 in the Norman Conquest. Old English Literature has various genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legislation, chronicles, riddles, and others.

Here, we will review one of the famous Old English Literature that is Beowulf. Beowulf is a poem consisting of 3000 lines and includes a type of epic poetry. Beowulf is a mid-century hero whose story is known through a long poem. Beowulf's poetry tells the journey of a hero's life from the time he was young until his heroic death. Although written in Old English, the setting is located in the Scandinavian region, around Switzerland and Denmark. The writer of the poetry in this manuscript form is unknown. But the first owner of the famous Beowulf manuscript was a writer named Laurence Nowell who lived in the 16th century.

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Beowulf is also made into a 3D adult animated epic fantasy movie that directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary which popularized in 2007. This movie tells the story of the Heorot kingdom who was struck by misfortune for many years because a monster attack who named Grendel. The King, Hrothgar played by Anthony Hopkins looks helpless and almost hopeless. Then came Beowulf played by Ray Winstone to save the kingdom by cutting off Grendel's arm that eventually made Grendel dead. And then, Grendel's Mother played by Angelina Jolie take revenge by spreading terror to all the people of Heorot.

Seeing the terror done by Grendel's Mother made Beowulf come to the devil's cave to kill her. Upon returning from the devil's cave, the situation became calm and peace again settled into the Heorot kingdom with Beowulf himself became a king, until finally a dragon appear to attack him and the dragon was lose at the same time with the death of Beowulf because of his broken left arm.

This movie is so cool and good as a recommendation for you who like hero story in the animation form. And this movie is a 3D animation with good and smooth image quality using advanced CGI animation techniques. Starting from skin texture, facial expressions, until body movement is projected perfectly in CGI canvas. I agree that this movie is highly recommended.

Well, we have finished reviewing Beowulf today. For who are curious to know the story more details, please watch Beowulf that directed by Robert Zemeckis.